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Cost: Routing System to replace Di Tech: $60,000 Digital and SVHS tape decks, cards, rack mounts: $201,700 Monitors: $25,000 Scala software and hardware upgrade: $20,000 Audio and Video distribution /amplification: $30,000 Cabling, connectors, parts: $8,000 Test Equipment: $7,000 Misc. Equipment: $10,000 • Move to a Digital Format Over the past several years we have begun purchasing DVCPro equipment. This is a new tape format so it needs to be introduced in steps. The first step was to purchase acquisition equipment, or cameras. The second step was tape decks to allow us to edit from the DVCPro format to a format we could play on the channel. The third step is to purchase mastering and playback equipment. This will allow us to tape, edit, and playback in the DVCPro format. The first two steps have been initiated. We are capable of recording and editing in the DVCPro format. We are now poised to purchase mastering equipment for the staff edit suite, the production truck, and the studio. At the same time we will need playback decks and digital control cards, for the routing system, in master control. Cost: 6 DVCPro Edit/Record Decks $48,000 1 Edit Controller $1,500 • The Production Truck Everyone is aware of our current production truck's mounting problems. Thanks to a $62,232 grant from the Cable Commission and three years of saving on the part of the Media Center, we will have enough to purchase a production truck by the end of 2000. We will not be anywhere near our goal of having enough money to outfit the truck with new digital equipment. The plan is to hold on to the current truck, as long as it is economically and safely feasible, with the hope that we would eventually have enough money to buy new equipment. The likelihood is that we will need to purchase a new truck before we can outfit it with new equipment. In this instance, we would simply transfer the video production equipment from the old truck to the new, and replace equipment as we could afford it. Consideration has been given to keeping the old truck, in addition to the new production facility. After weighing the truck's current condition and the cost of outfitting and maintaining equipment in two trucks, it has been determined to be very unlikely that we could afford to do so. While the production truck is arguably our most important production tool, maintaining and and outfitting two trucks would monopolize resources that will be needed to provide adequate field, editing, and studio equipment also. In a perfect world, when we replace the truck, we would also upgrade some of the major video production equipment systems. Additional DVCPro decks, a digital switcher /DVE, a digital audio /video router and distribution amplification system, and digital cameras and Triax cables would be purchased. With digital cameras, decks and a switcher, our finished product would 10